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 | Information about Sure Start Children's Centres |
Sure Start Children's Centres are a Government funded initiative which provide a range of Core Services to families with children of pre-school age.
Outreach and Home Visiting
Support to families and parents
Services that provide good quality play, learning and child care.
Primary and community health and social care
Help to get access to specialised services, including support for people with special needs.
The aim of Sure Start Children's Centres is:
To work with parents to be, parents and children to promote the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children – particularly those who are disadvantaged – so they can flourish at home and when they get to school, and thereby break the cycle of disadvantage for the current generation of young children.
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Breastfeeding
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Children's Centres
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These are the next phase of support for familes and they are intended to build on the success of Local Sure Start Programmes.
Bacup and Stacksteads Sure Start is one of these Centres and is now called The Maden Community and Children's Centre.
There will be 5 of these Centres in Rossendale:-
The Maden Centre, Bacup
Staghills Children's Centre, Newchurch
Haslingden Community Link and Children's Centre, Haslingden
and 2 smaller Centres in Whitworth and Balladen
If you would like more information please visit the Sure Start Website www.surestart.gov.uk
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